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Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

Chapter 1: ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
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A sequence of satirical and lyrical poems confronts anti‑suffrage arguments by transforming speeches, household scenes, and public rhetoric into ironic verse. The pieces employ parody, persona, and domestic comedy to expose contradictions in claims about women's nature, proper roles, and fitness for political life. Several poems imagine family conversations, legislative speeches, and workplace injustices to illustrate legal and economic exclusions that accompany denied franchise. Humor alternates with indignation, and formal variety—sonnets, ballads, masque-like sketches and short epigrams—keeps the tone energetic while repeatedly urging enfranchisement and equal civic recognition.

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Title: Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

Author: Alice Duer Miller

Release date: March 1, 2004 [eBook #11689]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

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ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?

By ALICE DUER MILLER

ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?

A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR SUFFRAGE TIMES

BY ALICE DUER MILLER

AUTHOR OF “BLUE ARCH,” “THE MODERN OBSTACLE.” ETC.

TO V.B.W. SLAVE-DRIVER AND FRIEND